Initial planning for BANANAS!

This weekend we’re running a load of crazyfun activities themed around bananas and technology.

There’s lots to get ready: from giant fruit and projected video games through to mask templates and novelty synthesisers. But the plus side is that we have to test them all and come up with all the cool ideas (well the first layer, anyway – we’re sure you’ll add plenty more inventiveness on top of what we start off with!).

Here are some photos from our initial planning meeting:

BANANAS! initial planning session

BANANAS! initial planning session

BANANAS! initial planning session

It wasn’t long before other people in the office were coming over to see what was going on. Turns out Dave-from-Marketing’s got some latent musical talent, too!

We’ll be using MaKey MaKey for a couple of the activities and we’re anticipating them being, shall we say, quite energetic, so I’ve also started making an extension/fortification board to a) make things a bit more robust b) make it easier to access as many different inputs as possible and c) provide a way of connecting a variety of different leads.

MaKey MaKey robustified

MaKey MaKey robustified

Today I’ll be making some of the things that will get attached to it. The question is, what will people then attach to the other ends of the cables?! Come along on Saturday or Sunday to find out.